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AVGEEK ALERT! I finally managed to hike with @Reweth out to the 1945 Canso crash site near Tofino (thread)
there were A LOT of berries along the way!
the trail goes through shore pine bog habitat. i do not know what these blue flowers are, but they're sure lovely
trail leads to tail...
peekaboo! @Reweth
There used to be a laminated news clipping attached to a bulkhead, telling the story of this amazing emergency landing in which all crew survived to walk out . That's gone now, but a thoughtful person wrote all the plane's stats & crew names on the bulkhead:
"Any landing you walk away from is a good landing." AMEN.
This plane not only had 12 crew aboard, it was fully loaded with fuel and antisubmarine ordnance. There's a bomb crater *just* before you reach the wreckage.
Feb 8, 1945: my mum's 15th birthday, as it happens
This plane not only had 12 crew aboard, it was fully loaded with fuel and antisubmarine ordnance. There's a bomb crater *just* before you reach the wreckage.
Feb 8, 1945: my mum's 15th birthday, as it happens
What it would have looked like in operation.
And a story from one of the survivors, age 90, in 2014. https://globalnews.ca/news/1657347/canso-11007-the-last-flight/
Here's @Reweth 's long thread with more and better photos https://twitter.com/reweth/status/1035414124421763073?s=21
